BUTLER v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, by a writ of error issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act.
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This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, by a writ of error issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act. The object was to test the constitutionality of an act passed' by the legislature of Pennsylvania, on the 18th of April, 1843, entitled “ An Act to" reduce the expenses and provide for the election of the Board of Canal Commissioners.’-’ The allegation was, that the act was repugnant to the Constitution of the United'States. '- ' The plaintiffs in error were, on the 1st of February, 1843, severally appointed and commissioned by the Governor of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State ' of Pennsylvania, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, .for the purpose of, revising a judgment rendered by the court above mentioned at the May term of that court, in the year 1848, against the plaintiffs, in error, in a certáin -action of assumpsit instituted against those plaintiffs on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
By authority of. a statute of Pennsylvania of the 28th of January, 1836, the plaintiffs in error were by the Governor of the State appointed to the place of Canal Commissioners; and…
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